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Re:Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? by dragonwriter on Friday February 21, 2025 @03:31AM (#43125366)
> FRED wants the implication to be AI related,

Where is there any indication that FRED wants this?

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Re:Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? by tqi on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:12PM (#43133026)
Wants is maybe too strong, but I've seen this chart in a couple of different substacks / editorials, which I assumed is the fed's press office shopping this story around because "AI taking jobs" is zeitgeist-y right now.
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Re:Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? by dragonwriter on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:39PM (#43133378)
It's more likely that it became popular to use in commentary because this chart from FRED (both the software dev postings on Indeed chart, and, in the comments, the comparison to the overall job postings on Indeed chart) got attention on a certain orange-tinted site that is popular with people in and around and commenting on the software development field a few months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41409006

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